Type casting and composing machine.



No. 765,059. PATENTED JULY 12, 1904, M. WEHRLIN. TYPE CASTING ANDUOMPOSING MACHINE,

APPLICATION TILED JUNE 6. 1903.

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TYPE CASTING AND GOMPOSING MACHINE.

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TYPE CASTING AND GOMPOSING MAGHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 6. 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented July 12, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

INTERNATIONALE DE LELECT OF PARIS, FRANCE.

RO-TYPOGRAPHE MERAY & ROZAR,

TYPE CASTING AND COMPOSING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Fatent No. 765,059, dated July 12,1904.

To all whmn it 'Irt/Ly concern:

Be it known that I, MAURICE VVEIIRLIN, engineer, a citizen of theRepublic of France, residing at 74: Rue de la Victoire, Paris, intheRepublic of France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inType Casting and Composing Machines, of which the following is aspecification.

In movable-type casting and composing machines operating by means ofregister-bands such as those known heretofore, chiefly those in which inthe course of the operation of producing a type the dies are withdrawnfrom their conducting-pieces for the purpose of being held motionlessagainst the mold at the time when casting takes place, whereas theirconducting-pieces continue to move freely, it has not been possiblehitherto to produce at the same time as the usual printing-type a secondsort of writing, called distinguishing printing-type, whereby a variedcomposition might be made.

This invention relates to a device whereby without increasing the numberof the perforations (combinations of perforations) of theregistering-band or the number of dies, and consequently the number ofthe brackets supporting the same, it becomes possible to compose besidesthe usual printing-type a second sort of printing-type calleddistinguishing This second sort of type may be in that which concernsthe shape and thickness of the type absolutely independent of the firsthandwriting, which, as is well known, could not be carried out by themachines heretofore known for the production of the varied composition,(for example, on the linotype,) because in those machines the thicknessof the type is limited by that of the die-carrying platesthat is, thatthe two types must have absolutely the same thickness-a condition whichmars the beauty of the composition.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the devicetaken altogether. Fig. 2 is a plan corresponding to Fig. 1, showing alsosome parts of the movabletype casting and composing machine, notably thecarriage of the die-carrying arms and the square mandrel, which receivesthe dies when the type are being cast. Fig. 3 is a plan of the part ofthe mechanism which insures the passage of one sort of type to anothersort. Fig. i shows some of the parts of Fig. 3 in another position. Fig.5 is a plan of the part of the mechanism which insures for each sort thecasting of the different type small letters, capital letters, andpunctuations. Fig. 6 shows a part of the elements represented in Fig. 5.Fig. 7 is an elevation of an inclined plane fixed under the carriage.Fig. 8 is a plan of a coupling device located between the square mandreland the shaft which turns the same. Fig. 9 is a front elevation of theapparatus taken altogether. Fig. 10 shows certain parts represented inFig. 9 in the positions they assume when one of the electromagnets hasbeen energized. Fig. 11 is a side view of certain parts represented inFig. 10. Fig. 12 is a plan corresponding to Fig. 11. Fig. 13 is aninclined side view of. a die, showing its six impressions. Fig. 14 is asectional view of the die on the axial line of the square hole. Fig. 15represents a fragment of the registering-band relating to the case whenthe distinguishing printing-type (in italics) begins and ends in thecourse of the line. Fig. 16 represents a fragment of theregistering-band when the distinguishing printing-type begins and endswith the line. Fig. 17 is a diagram of the wiring of the currentsrelating to the functions of the present invention.

As is known, by the English Patent No. 18,891, June 5, 1897, the dies11, Figs. 1, 2, and 9, carried by the arms 12 in a reciprocatingcarriage 13, are moved out of the latter under the action of theperforations of a registering-band and take onto the square mandrel 14,Figs. 1 and 2, by means of the square hole 15 in the same each time theyare to be used in casting. These dies, Figs. 13 and 14,

receive on the same half of their periphery six differentimpressionssay, for instance, the characters a, A, 1-in usual printing-I type in the upper quadrant and the same characters in distinguishingtype (in italics) on the lower quadrant. By this arrangement it becomespossible in using only one combination of perforations per die to getsix different characters on the condition of giving each time to thesaid die preparatory to casting and by means of a suitable apparatus oneof the six rotations or turns for the purpose of bringing the desiredimpression opposite the mold.

The apparatus for moving the die into the proper position preparatory tocasting is controlled by means of the three electromagnets 16, 1.7, and18, Figs. 1, 9, and 10, contained in the main frame 19. The armature 20of the electromagnet 16 when attracted so moves a lever device 21 22that the latter rises, Figs. 9 and 10. In the movement a heel 23 on thearm 22, under the action of a spring 24, comes and takes up a positionon the upper part of the frame 19, so that when the energization of theelectromagnet ceases and the armature falls down into its position ofrest the arm 22 remains in its uppermost position. The electromagnets 17and 18 control a similar lever device. (Shown in Fig. 2 in part by thelevers 25 26, together with their heels 27 and 28.)

The carriage 13, Figs. 2 and 9, is reciprocated back and forth on thewedge-shaped way 29, as described in the patent above referred to. Thecarriage which contains the arms 12 and the dies 11 carries also acampiece 30, provided with the projection 31 in the shape of an inclinedplane.

Assuming that the carriage is making its forward stroke in the directionshown by the arrow in Fig. 2 and one of the electromagnets 16, 17, or 18has been previously energized, then one of the corresponding arms 22,25, or 26, will be in its uppermost position, Fig. 10. Let us take, forinstance, the arm 22. This arm will be moved toward the left by the cam30; but immediately afterward, when the inclined plane 31 reaches theheel of the arm 22, the latter will be moved downward and into itsnormal position to be ready to be again moved upward by itselectromagnet during the next stroke of the carriagethat is to say, tobegin operating again. The arms 25 26 move in the same manner, if theyhave been located by their electromagnets within reach of the cam 30.

Above the main frame 19 and within reach of the arms 22 25 26 lies asystem of three levers of the first order, located one above another,the lever 33 below, the lever 34 in the middle, and the lever 35 above,Figs. 1 and 2.

The two levers 33 and 34 are fixed, respectively, on two spindles 36 and37, Fig. 5, which telescope one into the other and traverse the mainframe 19, which serves as a bearing for the same. To their lower partare fixed the arms 38 and 39, Figs. 1, 5, which are pivoted to the rods40 and 41. The latter carry at their ends long vertical pins 42 43,Figs. 5, 6, and 9. The said pins are engaged in corresponding slots oftwo disks 46 and 47. The

said disks can revolve around aneeked screw 48, fixed on the shaft 49,which is mounted in the main frame 19 and terminates at its upper partby the plate 50, which serves as a support for the disks 46 and 47.

If we assume, for instance, that the electromagnet 18 has caused the arm26 to move up the latter when moved to the left by the cam 30 putsinmotion the lever 33, which is within its reach, Figs. 1 and 2. Thismotion transmitted to the disk 46, the spindle 36, the arm 38, the rod40, and the pin 42 causes the said disk to turn, the said disk remainingin its new position. The arm 26, as seen hereinbefore, is moved into itsnormal position by the inclined plane 31.

During the return stroke of the carriage 13 the rounded angle 32 of thecam 30, Fig.2, comes and impinges the second arm 33 of the lever 33,which had moved to the'right in the previous movement of the said leverand moves it against the abutting piece 51, which fixes the normalposition of the lever. By this movement the disk 46 will also be movedback into its normal position, since, as hereinbefore described, it isconnected to the lever 33 by parts which do not yield and must obey itsmovements. The electromagnet 17 produces the same elfect on the disk 47through the medium of thelever34. The electromagnet 16 has anotherfunction to fulfil. When the arm 22 has been replaced by it in itsnormal working position, the movement toward the left which it receivesfrom the cam 30 is communicated to the third lever, the upper one, 35,Fig. 3. The end of the lever 35, which is within reach of the arm 22,carries a link 52, which is pivoted to'one end of a pawl-carrying lever53 able to revolve around the necked screw 54, which serves as a spindlefor the same. The pawl 55, mounted on the free end of the lever 53,meshes with one of theeight teeth of aratchetwheel 56 under the actionof the spring 57, Fig. 3. The ratchet-wheel 56 has a downward extensionof square shape 58, Figs. 1, 3, and 4, and is loosely mounted on theplain part of the screw 54, which is fixed in the main frame 19.

Lower down than the ratchet-wheel 56 and within reach of the squareextension of the latter is the lever 59, carried by the screw 60, aroundwhich it turns. The free end of the lever 59 carries a pin 62, which isengaged in the corresponding slot 63 of a disk 64. The disk 64 isrotatably mounted on the shaft 67 and rests on a plate 68, fixed on thesaid shaft, Figs. 1 and 9. the main frame 19 and is capable of endwisemovement; but it is prevented from revolving by the screw 69 and thegroove 70. The lower part of the shaft carries a plate 71, provided withtwo arms 72, to which are attached the springs 73, the other ends ofwhich are attached to the screws 74, fixed in the main I20 The shaft 67has a bearing in frame 19. The plate 71 is also provided with two pins75, turned downward.

The parts being in the position shown in Fig. 3', a rotation of onetooth of the ratchetwheel 56 will have the effect of pushing the lever59 through the medium of a ridge of the squareextension 58, and in thisposition the notch 61 will cause the lever 59 to remain against the saidridge. This movement will have the effect of imparting to the disk 64 acertain amount of rotation. The disk will then be in the position shownin Fig. 4. This movement is obtained during the forward stroke of thecarriage 13 when the electromagnet 16 has been energized, because thegreater arm of lever 35, through the medium of 52, causes 53 to turnaround 54, the pawl 55 then causing the ratchet-wheel 56 turn one tooth.Then when the carriage 13 makes its backward stroke the rounded part 32of the cam 30 replaces here again the lever 35 in its normal position inpushing its smaller arm 35 against the part- 51. This movement,transmitted to the lever 53, replaces the pawl 55 in the position shownin Fig. 4, when it gears with the next tooth of the ratchet-wheel 56,preparatory to further impulsion. This further impulsion will occur whenthe electromagnet 16 has been energized; but the construction of theapparatus will show that during this following movement the square part58 will again present one of its level faces to the lever 59, which willcome against it uncler the action of its spring 76, thus causing thereturn of the disk 64 into its primary position. (Shown in Fig. 3.)

Above the disk 64, Figs. 1,' 2, and 9, lies a special part of the mainframe 77, in which work the two tooth-racks 78 and 79, the said racksmoving upward in suitable ways. These racks have each a heel 80 or 81,engaged in a groove of the disk 64. A toothed wheel 82, keyed on theshaft 83, meshes with the two racks and, for reasons which will be seenfurther on, either one of the latter can operate the toothed wheelwithout the other rack interfering.

V The shaft 83, mounted in bearings 84 and 85, carries a position-disk86, and its righthand end carries a disk 87, in which there is adiametrical groove 88, Figs. 1, 2, and 8. This groove receives thecorresponding rib of an intermediate disk 89, which is provided in itsother face with a similar rib at a right angle to the former one. Thissecond rib takes into a diame'trical groove in the disk 91, which heretakes the place of the abutment-plate, already known by the patenthereveyed, together with its support, in a dircction parallel to itsaxis.

If one of the racks 78 79 is moved vertically through the medium of thetoothed wheel 82, a rotary movement will be communicated to the shaft 83and from thence to the square mandrel 14. This rotation has the effect,according to its extent, of placing the die in the proper position whencasting takes place and in varying the amount and the direction of therotation one can get from one and the same die three differentcharacters of ordinary type and thrce'others of distinguishing type. Theamount of rotation to be received by the shaft 83, and consequently thedie, for the casting of a small letter, a capital letter, or a numeral,the impressions of which follow each other on the periphery of the die,as from the horizontal diameter when the die is inits normal position,(shown in Fig. 13,) is determined by the disks 46, 47, and 50, Figs. 1,5, and 9. As hereinbefore mentioned,

above and near to the said disks lie two abut- Y ment-pins 75, fixed ina plate 71. The disks 46 and 47 in their their normal position presentin front of the said pins two wide slots 44 45, into which the pins canpass without touching the disks each time the latter are raised.

At each forward stroke of the carriage 13 an inclined plane 94, fixed tothe said carriage, oscillates the double lever 95, which, through themedium of its pressure-spring 96, lifts at the proper time the shaft 49and with it the disks 46 and 47 to meet the abutment-pins 75. Theprecise amount of this movement is regulated by the abutment-screw 97,fixed to the lever and which comes to a stop against a tempered block98, inserted into the cast-iron of the frame. The lever 95 isconnectedwith the shaft 49 by two links 99, which have the effect of preventingany rotation of the shaft and of causing its certain return into itsinitial position. A spring and apiston 101 cause the return of the lever95 and of the shaft 49 into their normal position after the inclinedplane 94 has passed by.

Assuming that the die is to be turned to produce a punctuation or acipher, in this case the registering-band, besides the characteristiccombination of the die, presents a perforation in the seventh line. Thecharacteristic combination will have in the first place the effect ofcausing the arrival of the die onto the square mandrel 14 through themedium of known devices, and then the seventh perforation will producethe energization of the electromagnet 18.

The moving of the disk 46, for which the passage of the cam 30 thenoccurs, as hereinbefore described, will now have the effect when theshaft 49 and the disks 46 47 will be moved up to meet the abutment-rods75 of presenting to the latter solid parts of the disk 46, so that thesaid rods will be pushed back at the same time and will lift up withthemselves the shaft 67 and the disk 64.

The disk 64, in the circular groove of which, as hereinbefore described,are engaged the heels of the two toothed racks 78 79, has two groovesand 66, Figs. 3 and 5, so arranged that in each of its two positions oneof the said grooves lies under one of the toothed racks, so that if theshaft 67 and with it the disk 64 is lifted up there is only one of thesaid toothed racks actually connected with the said disk and which movesup with it, while the other finds a free passage to move down into oneof the grooves 65 or 66. Farther down the toothed rack when moving downagain finds a free passage into the grooves in the plate 68, which isfixed on the shaft 67.

According to whether the one or the other of the disks 47 or 46 willhave been moved under the influence of its electromagnet 17 or 18 thesystem of abutment or impingement, which controls the verticaldisplacement of the shaft 67 and of the toothed racks will havedifferent dimensions and will cause different rotations of the shaft83that is to say, of the die 11 on the mandrel '14. The thickness of thedisks 46 47 and the extent of the movement of the shaft 49 have been soselected that the displacement of the disk 46 gives the greatestrotation of the die and corresponds, consequently, to the impressionlocated the farthest from the horizontal diameter, (punctuation orcipher,) that the displacement of the disk 47 corresponds to the secondimpression, (capital letter) and that the plate 50 of the shaft 49corresponds to the first impression (small letter) when none of thedisks 46 47 have been displaced.

According as to whether ordinary type or distinguishing type (italictype, for instance) are to be cast, the electromagnet 16 causes acertain rotation to be communicated to the disk 64, so that the latteron being lifted up carries with it sometimes the one and some times theother of the toothed racks 78 or 79 and according to which there iscommunicated to the square mandrel 14 a rotation toward the right or arotation toward the left.

To determine very exactly the position of the impressions of the die atthe time of casting, the following arrangement is made use of: The disk86, which is invariably connected with the shaft 83, which controls thesquare mandrel 14, is provided in its periphcry with mortises 102 oftrapezoid shape in side view, the positions of which rigorouslycorrespond to the impressions of the die, but which are diametricallyopposed to the same. Furthermore, a seventh mortise, 103, is located onthe horizontal diameter, Fig. 9.

1n the normal position of the mandrel a stop-wedge 104 is inserted intothe mortise 103 and is solidly held there by the spring 105, whereby themandrel is held exactly in the position which corresponds to the reception and the departure of a die. A

Preparatory to casting-that is to say, before the mandrel is turned thestop-wedge is withdrawn from the mortise 103 by means of an arm 106, towhich it isjointed, of the shaft 107 and of the lever 108, on whichactsa campiece 109, fixed to the carriage 13. When the rotation of themandrel takes place, a moment before casting, the cam 109 no longeracting, the stop-wedge 104 penetrates, under the action of the spring105, into the mortise of the disk 86, which corresponds to theimpression which is to receive the cast of molten metal, so that the dieis always sure to bebefore casting takes place exactly in the requiredposition.

After casting takes place during the return stroke of thecarriage 13 theother end of the cam 109 acts in the same manner as before on 108, &c.,so that the wedge 104 is withdrawn from its mortise to allow the mandrelto turn back into its normal position. On the arrival of the mandrel inthis position the wedge again penetrates into the mortise 103.

There remains to be described how the currents circulate and in whatmanner they have been used to produce the movements just described, theperforations already known of the registering-band without increasingthe number of the same. Fig. 17 is a diagram of the circuits throughwhich the currents move in that which concerns the operation of thepresent invention. 1 to 7 designate the spring contacts of thedeciphering apparatus, the description of which is given in thehereinbefore-mentioned patent. and are the poles of a battery 8. 16, 17,and 18 are the electromagnets which control the above-describedmechanisms. The armature of the clectromagnet 17 supports a spring 110,which is isolated from the said armature and which when in its normalposition rests against a contact-piece 111. When the electromagnet 17 isenergized, the spring 110 comes and rests against another contact-piece112. The said spring 110, which is a conductor, is connected by a wire113 with the spring-contact 7.

The removal of the dies from and the placing of the same on the squaremandrel 14, Figs. 1 and 2, are insured by the combinations of theperforations 1 to 5, Figs. 15 and 16. The perforations 7 added to acombination' gives with the same die the casting of the punctuation. Theaddition of the perforation 6 gives the capital letter. The

perforation 3 alone controls the casting of a space; but if it isaccompanied by the two perforations 6 and 7 it controls the beginningand the end of the distinguishing type italic type, for instance-whenthe latter occurs in the course of the line at 1,.Fig. 15,

for instance. The perforation 1 alone controls the ascension of a lineterinlnating toward the galley; but if it is accompanied by the twoperforations 6 and 7 it controls at the same time the beginning and theend of the distinguishing type when the latter begins and finishes atthe same time as the line at I, Fig. 16, for instance. As the currentsmove in the same manner in the two cases, we will only describe thefirst case. where the perforations 6 and 7 accompany thespace-perforation 3, which immediately precedes the first word initalics and the spaceperforation which comes immediately after the lastword in italics, Fig. 15.

Let us call to mind that in the casting-machine constructed according tothe hereinbefore-mentioned patent when a combination of theregistering-band passes into the deciphering apparatus the making of thecircuits corresponding to the different perforations of this combinationisnot simultaneous, but successive, on account of a rotary distributerpassing onto pairs of segments, such as I, Fig. 17. In the present casefor the combination I of the band, Fig. 15, the third perforation willbegin to operate first, after which acircuit will be made by the sixthperforation, and in the last place the same effect will be produced bythe seventh.

The third perforation, as described in the hereinbefore-mentionedpatent, has the effect of placing the space-die onto the square mandrel.The sixth perforation makes a circuit in which the current from pole ofthe battery passes into a contact-cylinder located under theregistering-band, then through the perforation into the spring-contact6, and from thence through 6 to the electromagnet 17, through the coilof which it returns to pole of battery 8.

'The currents cannot follow the wires 115 116, which are connected tobroken circuits, which are only closed during the periods ofjustification and for purposes which do not concern the presentinvention.

By the energization 'of the electromagnet 17 which results from theprevious current the armature 11 1 is attracted and the springcontactcomes against the contact-screw 112. As in the apparatus, thiscontact-spring is in reality connected with a lever which is similar to20, Fig. 9. It then remains against the contact-screw 112 so long as thearm 25, Fig. 2, remains in its uppermost position. An instant after theenergization of the electromagnet 17 the seventh perforation makes acircuit in which the current from the pole of the battery passes throughthe springcontact 7 7 113 110, the contact-screw 112, the electromagnet16, back to pole of the battery. The armature of the electromagnet 16 istherefore attracted and causes the disk 64 to so swing as to produce, ashereinbefore described, the changing of the type.

By the action of the cam 30, hereinbefore described, the arms which havebeen moved up are pushed toward the left, first the arm and then the arm22. Then immediately afterward they are pushed downward by the inclinedplane 31. By this latter movement the spring-contact 110 will again beplaced against the contact-screw 111, so that for the followingcombination of the registeringband the holes 6 and 7 may, if required,send currents into their respective electromagnets l7 and 18 to put inoperation the arms 25 and 26 to determine by the respective or relativeposition of the disks 46 17 the sort of characters to be cast (capitalletters or punctuation) in the kind of type which has been determined,as just described. That will also be the case until the registering-bandagain presents a space-perforation accompanied by the holes 6 and 7, ascan be seen in Fig. 15, after the word in italics,the result being afresh change in the kind of type, the lever 59 passing in from one ridgeof the square 58 onto the fiat face of the said square, and so on.

When the perforation 7 exists in the hand without being accompanied byhole 6, the current from the pole of the battery passes through 7 7 113,110, and 111 to the electromagnet 18 and from thence back to pole of thebattery. The electromagnet 18 then produces the oscillation of the disk16, and consequently the setting of the mechanism which directs the diesso as to prepare for the casting of a sign of punctuation or of acipher. In a similar manner when a perforation 6 appears in thedeciphering without being accompanied by a corresponding perforation 7the current passes through 6 6 and the electromagnet 17, so as to act onthe disk 47 and to change the setting of the same mechanism for thepurpose of obtaining a capital letter.

To sum up, the present apparatus allows of the dies being presented infront of the mold in different ways in order to obtain a Variedcomposition without increasing the number of the combinations of theregistering-band already known or the number of dies.

I claim 1. In a type-casting and a type-composing machine operatingthrough the medium of a perforated registering-band, and having dieswhich can be presented in different ways in front of the mold, thecombination of a die having two groups of characters, of a mechanismcontrolled by the action of an electric current and which is operatedintermittently to present in front of the mold one of the groups ofcharacters, and of a mechanism controlled by the action of anotherelectric current and which is operated intermittently to regulate theposition of the required character in the said group.

2. In a type-casting and a type-composing machine operating through themedium of a perforated registering-band, and having dies which can bepresented in different ways in front of them'old', the combination of adie having two groups of characters, of a mechanism controlled by theaction of an electric current and which is operated intermittently topresent in front of the mold one of the groups of characters, and ofamechanism controlled by the action of another electric current and whichis operated intermittently to regulate the position of the requiredcharacter in the said group, and of means to produce the said electriccurrents at the passage of the parts of the perforated band in whichcertain rows of perforations comprise, besides the combination of theperforations corresponding to a space or to a change of line, two

perforations (lines 6 and 7) corresponding to a change in the kind ofcharacters or type.

3. In a type-casting and a type-composing machine operating through themedium of a perforated registering-band, and having dies which can bepresented in difierent ways in front of the mold, the combination of adie having two groups of characters, of a mandrel 14, of a shaft 83, ofa wheel 82, of the toothed racks 7 8, 79, on the opposite sides of thesaid wheel, and of means controlled by the action of an electric currentand which are operated intermittently to move one or the other of thesaid toothed racks.

4. In a type-casting and a type-composing machine operating through themedium of a perforated registering-band, and having dies which can bepresented in different ways in front of the mold, the combination of adie having two groups of characters, of a mandrel 14, of a shaft 83, ofa wheel 82, of the toothed racks 7 8, 79 on the opposite sides of thesaid wheel, and of means controlled by the action of an electric currentand which are operated intermittently to move one or the other of thesaid toothed racks, and of means controlled by the action of anotherelectric current and which are operated intermittently to regulate oradjust the displacement of the toothed rack moved or carried along.

5. In a type-casting and a type-composing machine operating through themedium of a perforated registering-band, and having dies which can bepresented in difierent ways in front of the mold, the combination of adie having two groups of characters, of a mandrel 14, of a shaft 83, ofa wheel 82, of the toothed. racks 78, 79 on the opposite sides of thesaid wheel, of a disk 64 having slots, of a sliding shaft 67, of meansto lift up intermittently the said shaft, and of means controlled by anelectric current to change the direction of the said disk 64, whereby aslot is brought alternatively under one of the toothed racks and wherebythe latter is not lifted up, while the other toothed rack is the onlyone to be lifted up.

6. In a type-casting and a type-composing machine operating through themedium of a perforated registering-band, and having dies which can bepresented in different ways in front of the mold, the combination'of adie having two groups of characters, of a mandrel 14, of a shaft 83, ofa wheel 82, of the toothed racks 7 8, 79 on the opposite sides of thesaid wheel, of a disk 64 having slots, of a sliding shaft 67, of meansto lift up intermittently the said shaft, of a lever 59, of a cam 58, ofa ratchetwheel 56, of a lever connected with the ratchet-wheel, of aninclined plane 30 capable of intermittent movement, of an electromagnet16, and of means operated by the said electromagnet to put the saidlevers in connection with the said inclined plane.

7. In a type-casting and a type-composing machine operating through themedium of a perforated registering-band, and having dies which can bepresented in different ways in front of the mold, the combination of adie having two groups of characters, of a mandrel 14, of a shaft 83, ofa wheel 82, of the toothed racks 7 8, 79 on the opposite sides of thesaid wheel, of a disk 64, of a sliding shaft'67, of a disk 71, of thepins 75, of the disks 46, 47 having slots, of an unpierced disk 50, ofmeans to lift up intermittentlythese disks altogether, and of meanscontrolled by the electromagn'ets 17, 18 to regulate the direction ofthe disks having slots.

8. In a type-casting'and a type-composing machine operating through themedium of a perforated registering-band, and having dies which can bepresented in different ways in front of the mold, the combination ofadie having two groups of characters, of a mandrel 14, of a shaft 83, ofa wheel 82 of the toothed racks 7 8, 79 on the opposite sides of thesaid wheel, of a mechanism to lift up alternatively the toothed racks,of a two-armed lever 35, 35 connected to the said mechanism, of theinclined planes 30, 31, 32 capable of intermittent movement, of anelectromagnet 16, of-a lever 22, and of a projection 23 on the saidlever;

the inclined plane 30 acting on thearm 35 through the medium of theraised lever 22; the inclined plane 31 acting afterward on theprojection 23 to move the lever 22 downward again; and the inclinedplane 31 acting lastly on the arm 35 to bring the lever 35, 35 backwardagain. 7

9. In a type-casting and a type-composing machine operating through themedium of a perforated registering-band, and having dies which can bepresented in different ways in front of the mold, the combination of adie having two groups of characters, of a mandrel 14, of a shaft 83, ofmeans operated by an intermittently moving carriage 13, and controlledby electric currents to regulate the direction of the shaft, of a disk86having slots, of a stop-wedge 104, of a spring 105, of the levers 106,108 connected to the stop-wedge, and of a double-inclined plane 109fixed to the said carriage to act on the said levers, whereby the wedgeis withdrawn from the disk by the action of the carriage while the shaftis being regulated or adjusted and takes into the disk again after suchregulation or adjustment.

10. In a type-casting and a type-composing machine operating through themedium of a perforated registering-band, and having dies which can bepresented in diflerent ways in front of the mold, the combination of adie having two groups of characters, of a mechanism controlled by theaction of an electric current and which is operated intermittently topresent in front of the mold one of the groups of characters, and of amechanism controlled by the action of another electric current and whichis operated intermittently to regulate the position of the requiredcharacter of the group, of the electromagnets 17 and 18 to regulate theaction of the mechanism mentioned in the second place and which isinfluenced by the perforations of the lines 6 and 7, respectively, of anelectromagnet 16 to regulate the action of the mechanism mentioned inthe first place, of the means for sending successively the currentsthrough the perforations 6 and 7, of a commutator 110, operated by theelectromagnet 17, of a circuit 113, 110, 111 normally closed by thecommutator, passing through the electromagnet 18, and which isinfluenced by the perforations 7, and of another circuit 113, 112 closedby the commutator under the influence of the electromagnet 17, thelatter circuit passing through the electromagnet 16 and being influencedalso by the perforations 7, whereby when a perforation 7 presents itselfWithout a corresponding perforation 6, the electromagnet 18 acts aloneto regulate the mechanism mentioned in the second place, Whereas when aperforation 6 comes first into action, the electromagnet 17 acts on thesame mechanism and, furthermore, prepares the electromagnet 16 for beinginfluenced by the corresponding perforation 7, if required, in order toregulate also the mechanism mentioned in the first place.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MAURICE VVEHRLIN.

l/Vi tnesses:

J. ALLIsoN BOWEN, MAURICE Roux.

